Word: luxembourg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large, luxurious legation of Luxembourg in Washington one day last week Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess Charlotte and her dashing consort Prince Felix gave a reception. Guests were Cabinet members, Ambassadors, Government officials, other bigwigs. But the guest of honor was a stocky, middle-aged man with a long face and a white-toothed smile who has never held any diplomatic post above that of charge d'affaires: Alabama-born George Platt Waller, for ten years consul and charge d'affaires in Luxembourg...
...visas, got them interviews and a look at a salient of the onetime Western Front, entertained them with cocktails and phonograph recordings of such Americana as Floradora and Bert Williams' You Can't Do Nothin' Till Martin Gits Here. When the Germans rehearsed their invasion of Luxembourg a few days before the act, Bob Casey (Chicago Daily News) put the story on the wires...
When the peace after World War II is written George Waller will have documentation attesting the correctness of every action of Luxembourg's rulers and Government. It was in gratitude for his devotion that they gave him the reception last week. He would like to return to Luxembourg one day as the first U.S. Minister. Meanwhile Luxembourg's best friend in need is waiting for the State Department to give him another...
...addition economic collaboration was well under way. A barter system for foodstuffs and many other commodities was doing big business between France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg-and Hungary and Rumania were reported about to join up. With a lid artificially clamped on the prices of French securities, Germans were buying heavily into French banks and business houses. It was announced that French and German insurance companies would shortly fix a standard rate schedule among themselves...
...Sent to a German prison was the Most Rev. Joseph Philippe, Roman Catholic Bishop of Luxembourg. His flock learned the news from Cardinal Kinsley over the British radio...